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DOE demo shows robotics and automated labs controlled via Genesis gateway
Summary
The presenter said DOE-developed MCP tools let the same assistant drive instruments in an automated laboratory, demonstrating a robot moving a sample and running a test so a hypothesis becomes a bench measurement.
An Agency official for the Department of Energy showed how MCP tools on the Genesis platform can control robotics in automated laboratories: "With DOE developed MCP tools for robotics operation, the same assistant drives instruments in an automated laboratory," the presenter said, and demonstrated moving a sample and running a test.
The demonstration connected hypothesis generation to physical measurement: an agent proposed an experiment in text and the assistant then executed instrument steps so that "a hypothesis that started as a line of text ends as a measurement on a bench." The presenter said the platform traces each action and result for reuse in subsequent campaigns.
